California · Nonprofit
FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY (California) receives grants from 135 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,917,281 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($72,263,456). 91 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,681 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared funders
- Allen Family Foundationportfolio match
- The Morkal Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 1% · 2021 1% · 2022 1% · 2023 2% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
40% of FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 29 funders to 56 funders, grant income rose $6.2M → $9.9M.
30 of 135 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $23M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Fuller Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY raised.
From the IRS filings of FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 135 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 26% · 2019 35% · 2020 32% · 2021 50% · 2022 56% · 2023 30% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
51% of FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 25 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 135 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared fundersNY · backs 72 organizations that share your funders
- Allen Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Morkal Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hispanic Scholarship Fundshared fundersCA · backs 80 organizations that share your funders
- Howard Hughes Medical Instituteshared fundersMD · backs 76 organizations that share your funders
- Cystic Fibrosis Foundationshared fundersMD · backs 61 organizations that share your funders
- The George Washington Universityshared fundersVA · backs 71 organizations that share your funders
- Brown Universityshared fundersRI · backs 73 organizations that share your funders
- American Chemical Societyshared fundersDC · backs 94 organizations that share your funders
- American Council of Learned Societiesshared fundersNY · backs 75 organizations that share your funders
- Vanderbilt Universityshared fundersTN · backs 66 organizations that share your funders
- Cornell Universityshared fundersNY · backs 82 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.5M on record.
- Department of Education$2.4M
- Department of Defense$16k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 9 states
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Cgf Properties LLC · disregarded
- Cef Properties LLC · disregarded
- Fuller Endowment Fund LLC · partnership
- Charitable Remainder Unitrust (4) · corp_trust
- Charitable Remainder Annuity Trust (2) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY?
- FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY (California) receives grants from 135 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,917,281 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($72,263,456). 91 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY have?
- IRS filings report 135 organizations giving $130,917,281 in grants to FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, 91 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $72,263,456 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 135funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing